Firmalife

Welcome to Firmalife v3.0.0 for 1.21.1. Thank you to our contributors @Charnuz and Dodo. Many systems have seen changes in this version. Please read below for an incomplete changelog:

Bees

• Bees are much more temperature sensitive, becoming inactive below 14°C by default.
• Bees require honey to survive. During cold temperatures, bees will need to consume honey.
• Bees can be fed honey manually by adding honey or sugar to frames.
• Insulating beehive frames can be crafted to keep bees warmer in the winter.
• Scraping beehive frames only produces beeswax. They must be processed in a Centrifuge to get honey.
• Jars are not required to obtain honey, however they are required for it to be preserved indefinitely. Jars contain 4 raw honey.
• Bee queens are no longer 1 per frame, they are 1 per hive. Instead, frames contain honey and beeswax.
• Bees now reproduce via swarming. Healthy beehives that have honey will split into multiple hives if the conditions are correct.
• Added Skeps, small hives only capable of producing 1 honey at a time. Skeps can attract bees from wild beehives, as well as be picked up and moved.
• Wild honeycomb, and the (crafted) aromatic honeycomb can be used to attract wild bees to a skep in lieu of finding wild bees.
• Bees now have species, these species determine the traits they get.
• All genetic diseases and parasitic infections are now obtainable. Genetic diseases prevent reproduction, and infections prevent honey production.
• Added the Infection Resistance attribute.
• Beehives can no longer touch other blocks besides the block below them.
• Nerfed the rate at which honey is produced and de-emphasized flower count for production requirements.
• Added Bee Species. These are local to various climates and determine the traits obtained from wild bees.

Ovens

• Added insulated top ovens.
• Renamed registry entries and localizations of ovens in order to be more predictable and make more sense.
• When removing items from an oven, the game will attempt to stack them regardless of heat and creation date.
• Stovetop pots can now perform regular pot recipes instead of just soup recipes.
• Added comparator functionality to ovens, in case for some reason you wanted that.
• Added Jade info to Stovetop Pots.
• Redid all oven textures.
• Added Tile Bricks.
• Reconfigured some oven finish recipes.

Kegs

• Renamed big barrels to kegs internally.
• Kegs can now perform barrel recipes. This feature is highly complex and experimental.
• Kegs now expose their fluid and item handler on all sides (they now work with pipes and hoppers in the way you might expect).

Greenhouses

• Planters now use TFC's nutrient system, and thus nutrients are now much more complex inside of planters.
• Internally reworked the growth system and rates of the planter system. This will likely not feel very different to players.
• Updated the overall look of greenhouses, especially panel greenhouses, to be cleaner.
• Made greenhouse item tooltips more helpful.

Cellars

• Renamed many sealed brick related blocks to be more consistent and easier to search up.

Herbs, Spices, Food

• All herbs now have a use. A few new meals have been added to give these a use.
• Cinnamon has been removed for now, since it was unobtainable.
• Seed balls and butterfly grass have been removed.
• All herbs now spawn in the wild.

And much more not listed here! Thanks, and happy cooking! -@eerussianguy